Runaway

I have no idea what half of this meant, but I couldn't take my eyes - or ears - off it for even a split second. Beautiful, haunting, vulnerable and monstrous - and feautering several teasers from his masterful "Twisted Fantasy"-album, Kanye's shortfilm left me with more memorable scenarios and impressions than most cinematic releases of 2010.

The best.

As a director, he is a great rapper.

the point isn't to be some deep fucking masterpiece. It's Kanye doing what he does best, having a good time and making good music. There's nothing to "get." This is just a movie about a phoenix who flies to earth that Kanye made in his spare time.

6/10 for the video and 10/10 for the music and the album

An overwrought, incomprehensible short film that tries to pass itself off as 'art', I know that everyone else lets it go because of the music, but as someone who thought "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" was really overrated this was just unbearable. Some of the segments are kind of enjoyable, but for the most part this is just a boring, utterly directionless mess celebrating the point in his career where Kanye couldn't get his head out of his own ass.

50 points for the music, 0 points for the short "film."

It's pretty but it lacks substance. Sort of like Kanye himself.

The music is great, cool visuals. Kanye's attempts at acting are really funny.

MBDTF is one of my favorite albums of all time. This short film version is a bit of style over substance, but that's OK by me when the style is this good. There's enough substance in the music, so I don't mind that the narrative is a bit flimsy here. Absolutely beautiful.

It's very campy and silly, but also well-made and extremely visually intriguing.

I'm a big Kanye West fan, and of course I'm going to be curious when he dips his hand into directing. It's not that bad of an effort, a little confused and meandering, but the visuals and (of course) the music are worth checking Runaway out.

Beautifully shot at times but man, it's super pretentious